by Fr. Jim Chern
Every year on the Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent - the Church gives us one of the longest first readings from the Old Testament from the book of Daniel [read it here]. We…
So a random fact-toid for you the next time you’re on Jeopardy or playing Trivia Pursuit. While the Gospel we just heard is somewhat lengthy one, within that reading was one of the shortest scripture…
When reading and praying with scriptures, it’s interesting to me to see where my mind goes - or how the Holy Spirit catches my attention. Sometimes I can put myself into a dramatic scene and…
These last couple of weeks with this coronavirus pandemic has brought no shortage of extremes from great generosity, service and sacrifice to epic examples of stupidity, selfishness and just utter evil. Which validates a theory…
Last weekend, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that because of the widespread orders across the country of people being confined to their homes that Hallmark Channel went wall to wall Christmas movies for…
Why did he hesitate? That was a thought that came to my mind when praying with this Gospel passage [you can read the Gospel here]. This guy who is described as having been ill for…
This past January, a Japanese billionaire promised to give away $9 million to 1000 twitter followers (which for those of you trying to calculate that in your minds works out to $9,000 each) which they…
I’ve tried... seriously - to allow myself no more than 15-20 minutes of News coverage a day. For the most part all week I was good. Got the latest updates and then turned it off.…
Last night after we finished Mass and holy hour here, I had to drive down to the local CVS and I was telling our missionaries how unnerving it was to drive down the street and…
About 15 years ago, there was a magazine article that caught my attention. It was of a 16 month old boy being lifted in the air by his father, who has become a father later…